Auburn Death Cafe Write Up
A write up of Death Cafe Auburn CA
We held our very first Death Cafe in Auburn on March 11, 2014.
Eleven of us gathered in the evening in the warm environment of AHmbiance, upstairs in the Gold Country Mall in Downtown Auburn, CA. We all shared our reasons for coming, for wanting to participate. Only a couple people had ever been to a Death Café before and reasons for coming ranged from curiosity to the desire to be more present in the now in order to prepare for our eventual passing. Words used by participants to describe the experience were “safe, encouraging, open, enlightening, accepting”.
Sipping on tea and enjoying delights such as a gluten-free chocolate torte and vegan peanut butter cookies, we shared in our circle our own experiences of death, as children and now as adults. Some shared close experiences they had with loved ones dying, whether they had been there with them when they made their transition or felt they had experienced their presence sometime after. All thoughts, feelings and voices were welcome as we each shared a little about our common denominator of death.
Our Auburn group will be continuing to meet at AHmbiance on a monthly basis, the second Tuesday of each month, from 6:30 – 8:30. We will continue to share thoughts and feelings around death, in smaller groups where participants are welcome to share around topics that speak to them. All are welcome. As one participant shared when asked what she might tell someone considering attending - “Take a risk and see what you think and feel.”